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From: amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ksh dumping core
Message-ID: <2725@taux01.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 89 13:32:18 GMT
References: <834@fozzy.UUCP>
Organization: National Semiconductor (IC) Ltd, Israel Home of the 32532
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Hdate: 22 Tishrey 5750

It seems all your sessions use the same history file; one of them adds
to it, making the other's current pointer into it invalid.

It is easy to fix: just define HISTFILE=.hist$HOST$TTY in your .profile
(make sure $TTY and $HOST are defined first, of course).  I do not use
it since it's sometime useful to keep history around from other sessions;
just pressing RETURN every now and then makes sure a session re-reads
the history file, so it does not stay behind too much.

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	Amos Shapir		amos@taux01.nsc.com or amos@nsc.nsc.com
National Semiconductor (Israel) P.O.B. 3007, Herzlia 46104, Israel
Tel. +972 52 522261  TWX: 33691, fax: +972-52-558322
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